Adjunct Faculty, Creative Entrepreneurship Minor

MICA seeks a dedicated educator and entrepreneur with professional experience to serve as a part-time faculty member. The ideal candidate will be well versed in business applications across a variety of professional creative practices. Ideal candidates are enthusiastic about the future of creative entrepreneurship and its potential within the fields of fine arts and design. Preferred candidates will have experience developing student-centered programs, hands-on pedagogical approaches, and research and material practices relevant to art and design students, faculty, and a community population rich in diversity across race, ethnicity, gender, culture, physical ability, and class.

The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invites applications for adjunct faculty positions to teach courses offered in its Creative Entrepreneurship minor on an ongoing basis. MICA is a private art and design college nationally known for the high quality of its undergraduate and graduate programs, its dedication to student learning and teaching excellence, and its distinction in fine art and design at national and international levels.

Additionally, MICA is dedicated to delivering Creative Entrepreneurship to students through various courses in undergraduate majors, minors, graduate majors.

MICA is also home to the The Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship. RCCE was established in 2020 to substantially expand the MICAs support for its creative thinkers and innovators through co-curricular offerings and to expand access to business skill development for all students, no matter their major course of study.

General purpose of this position: To provide instruction for students enrolled in Creative Entrepreneurship courses covering a range of business topics as applied in numerous professional creative practices. Adjunct faculty are encouraged to incorporate professional, global and diverse perspectives into lectures, assignments, and course projects.

Adjunct faculty work directly with the Faculty Lead of Creative Entrepreneurship who establishes the course descriptions, learning objectives, and standardizes rubrics and syllabi. They also collaborate and coordinate with Faculty Lead, Creative Entrepreneurship and other MICA faculty. Courses generally meet once a week

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of foundational business practices as applied by professional artists and designers in one or more creative sectors.
• Selected topics covered in this minor include:
  • Foundations of starting and running a creative venture
  • Strategy, systems thinking and futures
  • Branding, Marketing and Social Media
  • Management and Leadership
  • Foundations of Budgeting and Finance
  • Foundations of Business Formation and Taxes
• Applicants will have education and experience in at least one of the above areas of knowledge as it pertains to professional applications for artists and designers across creative sectors.
• Applicants will be comfortable with using technology used in a classroom setting.
• Applicants will be able to demonstrate pedagogical knowledge of their subject area.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field in combination with10 years of related professional experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Masters degree in a related field In combination with 5 years of related professional experience

Conditions of Employment:

• Satisfactory Full Background Check results

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
• Required MICA training: Handbook orientation, Anti-Harassment, Hazard Communication, Emergency Plans & Fire Prevention, Personal Protection Equipment.